Ukraine Steps Up Drone Strikes
Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog
Ukraine has stepped up its drone attacks against a wide spectrum of Russian military infrastructure targets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fk3qAvhcWU• “Ukrainians are reportedly attacking objects from St. Petersburg to Krasnodar, which is a 2,000-kilometer front line in the air.”
• “Ukrainians have also reportedly accompanied the drone attack with a cyberattack on the Russian regional missile detection system.”
• They also hit an oil depot in Tuapse, for which Suchomimus has a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyo0aqEq8EE• That’s way beyond the Kerch Strait Bridge. Back to the first video.
• “The Russians have also closed the sky near St. Petersburg. After Russian detection systems were set off, Russians reportedly used interceptor jets to eliminate the threat.” That’s more than 1,000km from Kiev, which must have Russian air defense planners freaking out. (Or drinking even more heavily than usual.)
• The hit a number of targets in Crimea, though many of the drones launched there were shot down, and some were hijacked by Russian electronic warfare countermeasures. (Cue a Cory Doctorow-esque rant about the need for strong encryption.)
• “Some analysts are saying that Ukrainians are just testing Russian air and electronic defense systems, and are creating an elaborate map for building more sophisticated trajectories. After they finish, these analysts are predicting a much larger scale attack, which would cause a lot of destruction of the airfields, as well as oil refineries and factories producing military equipment.”
• “The second camp of analysts is saying that the goal of these attacks is to disperse Russian air defense that has been greatly concentrated on the fronts.”
Reporting from Ukraine is usually pretty solid and seems to have sources inside Ukraine’s defense ministry.
More:
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=54269
